The Hindu Business Line : Monday, May 26, 2003

Entrepreneurship: A new dimension
ENTREPRENEURSHIP is one of those elusive concepts, comprising diverse features all of which it is difficult to embody in a single, crisp definition. The US National Commission on Entrepreneurhsip has had a go at it as "the way the economy takes ... More

GLOBAL FINANCE & OVERVIEW

The curious thing about exchange rates
MY FAVOURITE anonymous quote about India goes like this: Whatever one says about India the opposite is equally true. Interestingly, it applies with equal force to something vastly different such as exchange rates! Yes, whatever exchange rate ... More

WIDE CANVAS

Discourses on development
THE Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics in Bangalore has been a useful exercise in airing various points of view on what comprises `development' and how best India can attain a respectable rate of economic growth. Such ... More

A RINGSIDE VIEW

`Market may move up; but it is more on psychological ground'
"The explanations are not easily available as to why banks should move up this week also after a long rally or for that matter why should the tech stocks decline by many times more than the rupee has appreciated in the recent times," Mr Abhay Aima as ks. More

MUTUAL CONFIDENCE

Time to enter equity funds?
EQUITY funds might just stage a comeback, at least for a short while, if recent trends are any indication. It is still early days yet but a number of equity funds are seen to be steadily mobilising fresh inflows, backed as they are by good ... More

ADR WATCH

Sentiment further hit for tech counters
AFTER posting gains for five consecutive weeks, the US benchmarks — S&P 500 and the tech-laced Nasdaq Composite Index — dropped last week on fear that earnings growth may falter. Since March 11, the S&P 500 rose by about 18 per cent ... More

SAY CHEEK

Are CAs great arrangers?
ACCOUNTANTS are aghast that one of their clan has been caught with his pants down in the now infamous `Gingee-gate'. Strangely, everybody else simply shrugs, because they always saw accountants as great arrangers. First, the bean counters ... More

STOCKS TO WATCH

Buyback, bonus to guide
Novartis & Asian Paints: THESE two stockscould attract market attention this week. The board meeting of Novartis is held on Monday to consider accounts and buy back of shares. The modalities of the buy back offer along with the ... More

ERRORS & OMISSIONS EXPECTED

Let's pray for divine intervention
I AM no atheist and this is no anti-God piece, for I am seeing the hand of god everywhere. Be it the neighbourhood park compound that is usually the site for personal waste-disposals or the busy bank branch that one can reach only after wading ... More

RANDOM WALK

Good governance, fresh governance
Keralites have long had great faith in Government and its institutions. They deserve good - and modern - governance. More

JOB WATCH

Satyam, Accel Tech in hiring mode
Starting today, Business Line will present a fortnightly analysis of job offers in the IT industry. Information on jobs on offer will be collated from various sources so that readers would have at one place, an overview of employment trends in ... More

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